Speaker biographies
Ted Frank is a resident fellow at AEI and director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest. He manages the Institute’s research in legal studies and specializes in product liability, class actions, and civil procedure. Before joining AEI, Mr. Frank was a litigator from 1995 to 2005 and clerked for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Frank has written for law reviews, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and National Review Online. He writes for the award-winning liability-reform blogs PointOfLaw.com and Overlawyered, and the Wall Street Journal has called him a “leading tort-reform advocate.”
Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve cofounded and, from 1989 to 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm that served as counsel in many precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.
Catherine Sharkey is a professor at New York University School of Law. She teaches and writes scholarly articles in the areas of torts, products liability, punitive damages, and class actions. Ms. Sharkey has published articles in leading law reviews, including New York University Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. She is a senior editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Tort Law. While a student at Yale Law School, she was executive editor of the Yale Law Journal. Ms. Sharkey served as law clerk to the Honorable Guido Calabresi on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and to Supreme Court justice David H. Souter.
Daniel E. Troy is a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of Sidley Austin LLP, where he is a member of the Life Sciences Practice and the Appellate Litigation Group. Mr. Troy is the former chief counsel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In addition to providing strategic counseling on FDA-related matters, he practices administrative and constitutional law and litigation, with particular focus on industries regulated by the FDA. Mr. Troy regularly argues before federal and state courts of appeal and has appeared before the Supreme Court. He served in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice as an attorney-adviser. From 1983 to 1984, he clerked for the Honorable Robert Bork on the D.C. Circuit[cr1] . Mr. Troy is the author of Retroactive Legislation (AEI Press, 1998). He has also been published in Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, National Review, The American Spectator, Legal Times, National Law Journal, The Journal of Law and Politics, Administrative Law Review, and Policy Review, among others.
Brian Wolfman is the director of Public Citizen Litigation Group, where his cases involve consumer health and safety regulation, freedom of information, expanding access to the courts, opposing federal preemption of state products liability law, consumer law, and class actions. In the preemption area, he has been lead counsel in a range of cases— including Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr—involving injuries from radiation exposure, prescription drugs, pesticides, and medical devices. Mr. Wolfman has argued four cases before the Supreme Court (with two more scheduled) and has worked on many other appellate cases. His work in class actions includes representing class plaintiffs and settlement objectors. For the past five years, Mr. Wolfman has taught a course on appellate courts at Harvard Law School and has previously taught similar courses at Stanford Law School, American University Law School, and Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining the Litigation Group in 1990, Mr. Wolfman was a staff attorney at Legal Services of Arkansas, where he did trial and appellate work in cases involving housing law, welfare law, family law, employment rights, and consumer protection. Before that, Mr. Wolfman clerked for the Honorable R. Lanier Anderson III on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
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